Death By Lack of Health Insurance: New Families USA reports crunch numbers state-by-state.

Families USA has been crunching numbers compiled by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and the findings are quite eye-opening.

I’m a bit too lazy to add a lot of analysis right now, so here’s the press release:

In 2002, a groundbreaking national study by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrated the direct link between a lack of health coverage and deaths from health-related causes. Drawing on that study, Families USA, the national organization for health care consumers, has today made available reports for all 50 states that show how many people are expected to die in each state each week because they don’t have health coverage. A separate report is also available for the District of Columbia.

This doesn’t even deal with all of us who have health insurance but fear a denial of payment for a needed procedure or test.